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Polo Party - Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$3,791
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Poolside Ladies
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,562
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Poolside Poodle 1970 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,441
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Party preparations
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
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Poolside ladies
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
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Catch up by the pool
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Poolside style
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Cocktail hour
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,504
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Poolside Tete a Tete
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,504
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Poolside interruption
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,504
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Palm Springs pool
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Poolside catwalk
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Poolside fashions
Slim Aarons
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Poolside loungers
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$2,631
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At The Linsk House
Slim Aarons
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Poolside conversation
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 24 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Desert house party
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Palm Beach Idyll
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,539
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September affair
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Henley regatta
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$5,739
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Modelling for Saks Fifth Avenue
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
![Photography, Debutante ball, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142547_1_grid.jpg)
Debutante ball
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,516
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Eden Hartford
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
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Saks fashion show
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,516
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Burlington Arcade
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$3,159
![Photography, Last-minute adjustments, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142488_1_grid.jpg)
Last-minute adjustments
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$3,159
![Photography, Poolside Backgammon, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142489_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside Backgammon
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Cricketers on the Pitch
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Inga Lindgren and Poodles
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Saks Fifth Ave
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,631
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Palm beach society
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$3,159
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Poolside Party
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,021
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Palm Springs Party
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
![Photography, Poolside Social, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142394_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside Social
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
![Photography, Poolside Poodle, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142383_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside Poodle
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,136
![Photography, At The Linsk House, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142382_1_grid.jpg)
At The Linsk House
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101 x 76 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$3,734
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On The slopes of Sugarbush
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$3,274
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Biography
At 18 years old, Aarons enlisted in the U.S. Army, worked as a photographer at West Point, and later served as a combat photographer in World War II and earned a Purple Heart. Aarons said combat had taught him the only beach worth landing on was "decorated with beautiful, seminude girls tanning in a tranquil sun."
After the war, Aarons moved to California and began photographing celebrities. In California, he shot his most praised photo, Kings of Hollywood, a 1957 New's Year's Eve photograph depicting Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and James Stewart relaxing at a bar in full formal wear. Aaron's work appeared in Life, Town & Country, and Holiday magazines.
Aarons never used a stylist, or a makeup artist. He made his career out of what he called "photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places."
An oft-cited example of this approach is his 1970 Poolside Gossip shot at Richard Neutra's Kaufmann House, with owner Nelda Linsk as one of the models in the photo.
"I knew everyone," he said in an interview with The (London) Independent in 2002. "They would invite me to one of their parties because they knew I wouldn't hurt them. I was one of them." Alfred Hitchcock's film, Rear Window (1954), whose main character is a photographer played by Jimmy Stewart, is set in an apartment reputed to be based on Aarons' apartment.
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